TOTAL HOURS
prewar: Kendrick 1961 https://www.nber.org/chapters/c2246.pdf, table A-X
some postwar: Kendrick 1976 https://www.nber.org/chapters/c3580.pdf, table A-10
late postwar: ASEC (see corresponding folder)


AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS
Historical stats (https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1975/compendia/hist_stats_colonial-1970.html) Series D765, D803. 
Postwar: FRED,  Nonfarm Business Sector: Average Weekly Hours
They are compiled in one Excel file (see folder ``Historical Statitistics of the Unites States...'')


POPULATION
early: https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/pre-1980-national.html
late: ASEC (see corresponding folder)


LABOR PRODUCTIVITY
early: Kendrick 1961 https://www.nber.org/chapters/c2246.pdf, table A-I
late:  (National income: Compensation of employees) and (CPI) from FRED
They are compiled in one Excel file (see folder ``Kendrick_1961'')



RECREATION PRICE
early: Owen, The demand for leisure (tables A1 and A3 from the paper)
middle: Historical stats (https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1975/compendia/hist_stats_colonial-1970.html) Series E165
late: from BLS (see BLS, price)



data_analysis.do processes all the series and plots Figure 1. It also produces US_long_price_series, which is then used by data_processing_prices in international_data folder
ASEC_data/skill_premium.do produces Figure 5d.





